Responsibility Quotes

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

We believe that colleges have a fundamental responsibility, if you're located in an urban area, to turn outward and address the needs of the communities you serve.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

I think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

My passion probably flows from the fact that I believe in God, and I believe we’re all children of the same God. I believe we have a responsibility to care for one another.

This, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of the American people.

I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.

There is no question in the fact that India has a global responsibility, and the coming "Gyan Yug" would see India play a pivotal role, using the strengths of its democracy and demographic dividend.

FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.

If we decide, we can change the pitiable condition of Indian economy. We have to take up the responsibility and show commitment.

We would have to give out something for the poor in India. It is my responsibility to give the people an account of every rupee. I will use it at right places. I won't let it get stolen.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility.

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.

It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]

Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then everybody else can act like a child in relation to him.

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.